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Conversations: with Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Policy Expert & Commentator

John Anderson: Conversations

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The Moral Equivalence of the West and the Enlightenment

We've abandoned belief in many of our values trust is broken down. There's a sort of a moral equivalence that's emerged somehow or other we don't understand the difference between human flourishing under freedom and the rules of freedom, says David Cameron. We find all kinds of people living in various forms of denial about the gravity of the human condition so you will certainly find these people who sort of somehow fix up a belief in the arc of history that progress will eliminate the evil in human souls.

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